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THE SECOND BOOK OF THE<br/>
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CHAPTER 9
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Queen of Sheba visits Solomon—He excels in wisdom, wealth, and magnificence—After reigning forty years Solomon dies, and Rehoboam becomes king.
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And</span> when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
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And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.
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And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
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And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; there was no more spirit in her.
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And she said to the king, <i>It was </i>a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/9/5a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR sayings.">acts</a>, and of thy wisdom:
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Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen <i>it:</i> and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: <i>for</i> thou exceedest the fame that I heard.
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Happy <i>are</i> thy men, and happy <i>are</i> these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
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Blessed be the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, <i>to be</i> king for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.
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And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.
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And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.
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And the king made <i>of</i> the algum trees terraces to the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and to the king’s palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.
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And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside <i>that</i> which she had brought unto the king.  So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.
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&#182; Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;
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Beside <i>that which</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/9/14a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE traders.">chapmen</a> and merchants brought.  And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.
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&#182; And king Solomon made two hundred <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/9/15a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE large shields.">targets</a> <i>of</i> beaten gold: six hundred <i>shekels</i> of beaten gold went to one target.
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And three hundred shields <i>made he of</i> beaten gold: three hundred <i>shekels</i> of gold went to one shield.  And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
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Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
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And <i>there were</i> six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, <i>which were</i> fastened to the throne, and <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/9/18a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE arm-rests.">stays</a> on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:
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And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps.  There was not the like made in any kingdom.
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&#182; And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon <i>were of</i> gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon <i>were of</i> pure gold: none <i>were of</i> silver; it was <i>not</i> any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
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For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
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And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
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&#182; And <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/9/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 4: 34.">all</a> the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.
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And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
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&#182; And Solomon had four thousand stalls for <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/9/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 4: 26.">horses</a> and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
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&#182; And he <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/9/26a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 4: 21.">reigned</a> over all the kings from <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/9/26b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE the Euphrates.">the</a> river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
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And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that <i>are</i> in the low plains in abundance.
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And they brought unto Solomon <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/9/28a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 17: 16.">horses</a> out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
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&#182; Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, <i>are</i> they not written in the book of <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/9/29a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Scriptures, Lost.">Nathan</a> the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/9/29b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Seer.">seer</a> against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
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And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
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And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
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